Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. – Red Smith

Baseball Quotes.

Ted Williams

“I’m always nice enough in the spring, until I read what those shitheads write about me.” – Ted Williams on the Boston media

Dick Allen

“Compared to National League, the American League is the pussy league of baseball.” – Dick Allen

Bob Costas

“Baseball is a human enterprise. Therefore, by definition, it’s imperfect, it’s flawed, it doesn’t embody perfectly everything that’s worthwhile about our country or about our culture. But it comes closer than most things in American life.” – Bob Costas

Josh Gibson

“Man, when I come to the plate, I’m in scoring position.” – Josh Gibson

Tony Gwynn

“You can’t live on what you did yesterday, you have to go out and prove yourself every day.” – Tony Gwynn